Professor Walter Rosenthal new Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 17:29 - http://idw-online.de/Physician Professor Walter Rosenthal has been appointed as Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, an institute which belongs to the Helmholtz...
Forma Therapeutics sheds secrecy, reveals $25M in financing
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 17:28 - http://www.fiercebiotech.com/Just because the headlines are looking gloomy, though, doesn't mean that individual biotech companies can't shine brightly. Case in point: Forma Therapeutics. The stealth biotech is shedding its...
Gardasil Approval for Boys Sought
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 17:07 - http://www.newsinferno.com/Gardasil maker Merck & Co. is officially seeking approval for use of the cervical cancer vaccine in boys. The company is also asking the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to expand the approval of...
Top bioresearch breakthroughs for 2008
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 15:00 - http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/Wired has come up with its closely-watched list of top scientific breakthroughs of the past year, and the life sciences figure prominently on the top-10 countdown.'On the list: A new approach to...
Program offers lifeline to women with breast cancer
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 14:31 - http://www.ctv.ca/Some are young mothers in their 30s, others 20-somethings starting their first jobs. At an age when most of their peers are establishing intimate relationships, these young women are facing a demon...
Genentech's Trastuzumab-Dm1 Shows Great Promise in Treating Breast Cancer
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 13:35 - http://seekingalpha.com/David Rau submits:Now that the SABC (San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference) is over, and the new year is upon us, what have we learned. Genentech (DNA) just announced data for the most promising...
21st Century Challenge Of Ovarian Cancer In The Elderly, A Personal Perspective - Cancernetwork.com
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 11:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/The incidence of ovarian cancer is highest in women over 70 years old, and the disease is the leading cause of death from gynecologic malignancies in the United States and Europe. Nevertheless,...
Girls and young women to be offered cervical cancer vaccine
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 10:40 - http://3news.co.nz/A free vaccination programme to help protect girls and young women against cervical cancer will be extended this year to include all young women, aged 12-18 years, in Canterbury.
FIT FOR YOU: Effort promotes cervical health
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 07:11 - http://newsok.com/Effort promotes cervical health More than 10,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, and about 3,900 women die from it. In the 1950s, cervical cancer was the...
Jobs reveals hormone imbalance
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 06:00 - http://www.charleston.net/NEW YORK — Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he...
